James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

We always make an assessment of what how best to deliver housing in a particular year as quickly as possible, whether it is through local authorities, in the context of affordable housing, the LDA or whatever. I encourage local authorities to apply for further funding. We went from a four-stage to a one-stage process and increased the ceiling from €8 million to €200 million to encourage local authorities to apply for even more. A lot of the allocation is often based on what the estimate would be of the amount local authorities would be to draw down in a particular year.